Posted on 04/09/2011 1:31:12 AM PDT by SatinDoll
The source for the following information is comment #3 at the url linked above:
Robin says - "There is a holiday which Shiite Muslims celebrate called Ashura, during this holiday the parents will use a dagger to make a cut on the scalp of their young child from the ear to the top of the scalp. The bleeding has a religious symbolic meaning that has something to do with a special blessing for the child by an imam."
"Several months ago, in a comment section for an article written about Obama and his scar is where I learned of this."
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The fact it may have a meaning to Muslims doesn't surprise me and just adds more fuel to the accusation that he isn't a Christian.
The thing is the scar doesn’t just go from the ear to the to of the head, it goes from one ear, over the crown and back down to his other ear, and it is a wide scar, wider than a cut with a sharp knife would make. .
Only a question....more likely to be surgery?
Sunni, or Shiaa!!!
This would indicate Shiaa/Iran.
In some parts of Africa, knife cuts were made on the newborn child’s face by the grandmother as a tribal marking right after birth.
You’ve spent a lot of time looking at Obama’s head!
Maybe it was an interrupted scalping?
That would explain what step-grandma Sarah was doing at Barry’s birth in Mombassa, now wouldn’t it.
Brain insertion/replacement or access to positronic brain.
Don’t think so, looks like an accident to me. As I said a wide scar, wider than a sharp blade, such as a scalpal would make. OTH, I don’t know how they make an incision in a skull, other than drilling holes in it and using a type of saw to cut between holes.
Nope, haven’t spent a lot of time looking at his head. What an asinine thing to say. There have been posts, here on fR, that had photos showing the scar quite clearly. On one side of his head it even goes down below his ear into his neck.
It’s not a scar. It’s an access point. It’s where they fill him up with S...
If the scar has a religious significance he may be wearing his hair so short in order for the scar to be visible. Like he is sending a message, “Hey, I’m on your side.”
Well that isn’t the kind of crap they’d do commonly in Hawaii.
scars yes on the ‘bams head but during Ashura in Yemen the knife is held over the head over young men at the top of their head and slice the TOP of the skull so that any blood drawn will drip down over their face to their eyes (extremely symbolic here on that one according to some Islamic rites.)
When i say young men, those who are considered a “man” of a certain age which i believe is 7. There are religious fanatics who implement this practice who also implement this practice on even younger boys;sometimes even infants if the mother doesn’t stop the husband. For them it is a badge of honor to have the scar.
When I was in Iran a long time ago I never saw this practice so perhaps this is indigenous to the Sunni’s as Iran is almost totally Shi’ite.
During Ashura in Teheran the religious men take to the streets in groups from differant mosques , chant,pray & walk together in groups beating their backs with metal chains (self-flaggelation) and it’s a mark of honor to see who has drawn the most blood.
Everything that isn’t Sunni is Shiite.
“Oh, yeah, apparently you can’t be president with a whole brain.” - Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
My guess is its his circumcision scar
There was a university professor who spoke about being born in Africa to our cross cultural psychology course. He had the very visable scars from the knife cuts on both sides of his face. (three long marks on each side that looked like cat whiskers) After telling us a wild tale about his battle with a tiger as a teeneager, he started laughing as he told us about the custom, and his grandmother making the tribal markings on his face with a knife shortly after he was born.
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